Thursday, 30 September 2010
09.15 Registration
09.40 Welcome and Introduction
09.45 Keynote Lecture
David Midgley (Cambridge): Beyond the Clichés. On the Specificity of Weimar Culture
10.30 Keynote Lecture
Moritz Föllmer (Leeds): Which Crisis? Which Modernity? New Perspectives on Weimar Germany
11.15 Coffee
Challenging Crisis and Doom
11.45 Michael Dreyer (Jena): Hugo Preuß and Weimar as a ‘wehrhafte Demokratie’
12.15 Russell Spinney (Maryland): Re-thinking the Emotional Narratives of the Weimar Republic through Displays of Fearlessness
12.45 Jochen Hung (London): Questionning the Generational Concept in Weimar Research
13.15 Discussion
13.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
15.00 Keynote Lecture
Debbie Lewer (Glasgow): Art and the Cultural Politics of the ‘Medieval’ in the Weimar Republic
15.45 Tea
Aesthetics
16.15 Anke Finger (Connecticut): Everyday Modernism: Sensing the Weimar Republic in Literature and other Arts
16.45 Nadine Rossol (Essex): Republican State Re-presentation and Public Performance Culture in Weimar Germany
17.15 Nicola Creighton (Belfast): Contingency: the Great Challenge of Weimar
17.45 Discussion
18.00 Break/Postgraduate Workshop
19.30 Conference dinner at the Amalfi Restaurant (three courses with choice and coffee; for further details please see registration form)
Friday, 1 October 2010
09.30 Keynote Lecture
Gustav Frank (Munich): Abseits der Republik? Nachexpressionistische Komplexität der Künste
10.15 Coffee
Parallel Session I: Gender
10.45 Aneka Meier (Pennsylvania): The Legendary New Woman of Weimar – Revisited
11.15 Jill Suzanne Smith (Maine): Prostitutes in the Weimar Republic: Moving beyond the Victim-Whore Dichotomy
11.45 Mihaela Petrescu (New York): Jazz, Gigolos, and ‘Eintänzer’: Dance and Masculinity during the Weimar Republic
12.15 Silke Helling (Hamburg) and Cornelia Baddack (Cologne): Geschlecht, Staat und Partizipation: Else Frobenius und Katharina von Kardoff-Oheimb
12.45 Discussion
II: Questioning ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’
10.45 Reinhard Zachau (Tennessee): Fallada’s Modernist Novel Characters in Wolf among Wolves, and Little Man, What Now?
11.15 Bernhard Heinrich (Schweinfurt): Falladas ‘kleine Frauen’: Lebensentwürfe in der Krise
11.45 Geoff Wilkes (Queensland): Behind the Glitter: the Critique of the Cultural Mass Market in Vicki Baum’s Menschen im Hotel
12.15 Discussion
III: Public Environment
10.45 Hansjakob Ziemer (Berlin): Listening to Society: Concert Hall Experiences as Social Practices in the 1920s
11.15 Michael Schwalb (Cologne): Begrenzt haltbar: die Kroll-Oper als republikanisches Laboratorium
11.45 Kerstin Barndt (Michigan): Present Futures. ‘Werkbund’ and Building Exhibitions in Weimar Germany
12.15 Mark Hobbs (Glasgow): Exploring Weimar Berlin’s History through its Geography
12.45 Discussion
13.05 Lunch (own arrangements)
IV: Visual Arts
14.30 James van Dyke (Missouri): Felixmüller’s Failure: Painting and Poverty
15.00 Elinor Beaven (Cambridge): The Art of Domesticity? Exploring Alternative Models of Artistic Practice through the Weimar ‘Künstlerpaar’
15.30 Katharine Tubb (Glasgow): The Garçonne, the Girl, and the Biedermeier Babe? Weimar Dress and the Ghosts of Fashions Past
16.00 Discussion
V: Politics and the Novel
14.30 Florian Krobb (Maynooth): Catholicism, ‘Conservative Revolution’ and the Fairy Tale: the Case of Wilhelm Matthiessen
15.00 Marion Löffler (Vienna): Was sagt das Publikum? Theoretische und literarische Beiträge zur politischen Kultur der Weimarer Republik
15.30 Nicholas Martin (Birmingham): Stranger than Fiction: Literary Transformations of War Experience in the Weimar Republic
16.00 Discussion
VI: Film
14.30 Brigitte Braun (Trier): Spiegelungen der eigenen Gegenwart im historischen Film der Weimarer Republik
15.00 Joel Westerdale (Massachusetts): The Canon of Early Weimar Cinema Reloaded
15.30 Matthias Uecker (Nottingham): ‘Das Leben [...] So ist es und nicht anders’: Constructions of Normality in Menschen am Sonntag
16.00 Discussion
16.15 Break
16.20 Keynote Lecture
Anthony McElligott (Limerick): Rethinking the Weimar Republic as Paradigm: Authority/less and Authoritarianism
17.05 Closing Discussion
17.30 Wine
18.00 End of Conference